College of Letters & Science
This Fall saw the publication of “Intersectional Methodological Approaches: Research movidas to Center Latino/Latina/Latinx Voices,” a special issue of the journal Latino Studies edited by Marla Ramírez Tahuado (CLS/History) and Sarah Rios (Community and Environmental Sociology). The issue was born of a 2019 roundtable discussion here at UW–Madison that brought five newly hired Indigenous, Latina, and …
Carolina S. Sarmiento, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Human Ecology and Chican@ & Latin@ Studies faculty affiliate, has received the Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award from the UW System at a reception on November 10th. This honor is given annually to faculty, staff, students or community members to recognize their …
The online news publication Madsion365 has placed Prof. Mariana Pacheco Ortiz on its list of the 46 most influential Latino leaders in Wisconsin. Every year since its founding in 2015, Madison365 has compiled this list to recognize the achievements of influential leaders of color in the state. A former bilingual (English-Spanish) teacher in Southern California, …
Jesús Salas, a longtime labor organizer, educator, former UW System Regent, and benefactor of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program, was honored earlier this month with a plaque at Alumni Park commemorating his achievements. He was one of eleven distinguished alunni of the University whose images are now visible in the park. Like many of …
On September 22, the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program held the first of a series of panels in the “Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Today” series. The panel brought contributors to the new volume Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest, just out from the University of Illinois Press, to discuss the ways that people …
At its recent annual Gala, the Milwaukee-based immigrant and labor rights organization Voces de la Frontera recognized former CLS Director Armando Ibarra with the Joe Rody Labor Rights Award. The son farm workers and longtime educators, Prof. Ibarra is a founding member of the Voces de la Frontera’s Essential Worker Rights Network and a member …
CLS Professor Theresa Delgadillo and her students in CHICLA 520 “Latinx Digital Publics” spent a semester exploring how to use the digital sphere to create and share public-facing Latinx Studies knowledge. You can read their original Latinx Studies digital projects on the CLS website’s “Chicanx & Latinx Studies Online” page. The student projects continue the …
On Saturday, May 14th, at 9:00 am, City of Madison Poet Laureate Angie Trudell Vasquez will address a record graduating class of Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Certificate students. A poet, writer, performer, activist and publisher, Angie Trudell Vasquez received her MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work was recently featured …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to announce that Dr. Benjamin Márquez and junior Katheryn Saavedra-Ballesteros are the winners of the 2022 Somos Faculty and Student Development Awards. Dr. Márquez is a Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on Mexican American politics and the politics of race and ethnicity in the United …
The Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program is delighted to announce that senior Student Stephanie Salgado Altamirano has won this year’s Jesus Salas Academic Activist Scholarship. A vocal leader in grassroots movements for climate justice and immigrant rights, Stephanie is pursuing a BA in Environmental Studies and Political Science with certificates in public policy and Chican@ …